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You know your problem
You keep it all in
You know your problem
You keep it all in
That's right
The conversation we had last night
When all I wanted to do was
Knife you in the heart
I kept it all in
You know your problem
You keep it all in
You know your problem
You keep it all in
Midnight, a husband getting ready to fight
A daughter sleeps alone with the light
Turned on, she bears but
Keeps it all in
Just like that murder in '73
Just like that robbery in '62
With all there things that have happened to me
I kept it all in
Why do you keep on telling me now
You know your problem
You keep it all in
You know your problem
You keep it all in
That's sweet
That conversation we had last week
When you gagged and bound me up to my seat
You're right, I do
I keep it all in
You keep it all in
You know your problem
You keep it all in
That's right
The conversation we had last night
When all I wanted to do was
Knife you in the heart
I kept it all in
You know your problem
You keep it all in
You know your problem
You keep it all in
Midnight, a husband getting ready to fight
A daughter sleeps alone with the light
Turned on, she bears but
Keeps it all in
Just like that murder in '73
Just like that robbery in '62
With all there things that have happened to me
I kept it all in
Why do you keep on telling me now
You know your problem
You keep it all in
You know your problem
You keep it all in
That's sweet
That conversation we had last week
When you gagged and bound me up to my seat
You're right, I do
I keep it all in
Lyrics submitted by mysteriousdragon
Track duration: 02:54
"You Keep It All In" as written by Paul Heaton, Dave Rotheray
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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"That's sweet
That conversation we had last week
When you gagged and bound me up to my seat
You're right, I do
I keep it all in"
The song feels like a cynical response to a "You keep your feelings bottled in" barb from a "loved" one (and I think they've kept it open ended so that either gender and your adult/ child/ parent can connect): "Of course I keep my feelings bottled up! What do you expect after years of systematic abuse where you neglected, bullied, failed to love me (or years of watching your miserable, failed relationship if you're seeing things from the daughter's angle)?"
I guess, what I'm saying is that the song seems to be about the damage inflicted over time by a vast majority of relationships which causes us to shut down emotionally.
Just more that the bloke keeps all his feelings bottled up, and although he did feel like knifing her in the heart, he didn't.
The crimes are other things he's done, that he thinks he probably shouldn't tell people.
Or receiving verbal abuse from your partner, how it's described both times as a 'conversation'.
I don't know...every time I look back at these lyrics my opinion changes...
Agreed, but what do the murder in '73 and the robbery in '62 have to do with anything?
I assumed the robbery was the Great Train Robbery, after which none of the gang ate cheese on the others even as most of them were tracked and arrested. The murder in '73 could be Jimmy Hoffa, the US trade union leader whose death/disappearance and the location of his body have been a secret ever since? Although actually I have a feeling Hoffa disappeared a few years later.
The murder could also be Kathleen Feeney, a 14 year old who was shot dead by the IRA in 1973. The IRA at the time denied it and blamed it on the British forces (even going so far as to kill a random British soldier in the area in 'retaliation'), and the British forces denied it as well, since they had nothing to do with it. The IRA only admitted responsibility in 2005, I think, so at the time the song was written it was just the British Army and the IRA both denying they had anything to do with Kathleen Feeney's death - whoever knew the truth was 'keeping it all in'.
the secret that the women is being hit is kept as a secret on both sides